(Dan Tri) – One of the suspects in the Moscow terrorist attack claimed that a mysterious figure approached them and agreed to the attack, providing them with weapons to carry out the attack on the Crocus City theater.
Terrorist suspects appear in court in Moscow (Photo: Reuters).
4 main suspects
Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on March 24 convened to hear prosecutors’ requests about four suspects in the terrorist attack at the Crocus City theater on March 22 that killed nearly 140 people.
The suspects include: Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev (32 years old), Saidakrami Rachabalizoda (30 years old), Shamsidin Fariduni (25 years old) and Muhammadsobir Fayzov (19 years old).
These people will be detained until May 22, but the time may be extended depending on when the trial date is set.
TASS said that 3 out of 4 suspects admitted to the crimes.
Fayzov was injured and was taken straight from the hospital to the court.
Suspect of Moscow terrorist attack appears in court
`Mysterious character`
Previously, Sputnik reported that one of the suspects claimed to have been hired for a salary of 1 million rubles to carry out a terrorist attack at the Crocus City theater, on the outskirts of Moscow on the evening of March 22.
The suspect named Shamsidin Fariduni claimed to have `listened to a preacher’s sermon` on Telegram some time before the conspirators approached and agreed on the mission a month ago.
The suspect contacted via Telegram an unknown person and was then provided with weapons.
This suspect said he flew to Russia from Turkey on March 4.
A seriously injured suspect was taken from the hospital to court on the evening of March 24 (Photo: TASS).
Suspect Fariduni was born in 1998 in Tajikistan and has an 8-month-old child.
Saidakrami was born in 1994. Saidakrami said he applied for temporary residence in Russia, but did not remember where he lived.
Fayzov was born in 2004 and is currently unemployed.
Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk said: `The Migration Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs together with our FSB colleagues are carefully studying the reasons for stay and duration of stay on Russian territory for each suspect.
These are the four main suspects in the terrorist attack at Crocus City theater, a suburb of Moscow on the evening of March 22, which left at least 137 people dead and nearly 150 injured.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said that the country’s security forces arrested four suspects near the borders with Belarus and Ukraine when this group tried to flee to Ukraine on the night of March 22.
Initially, the two suspects fled, but were recaptured after Russian security forces launched a search with the participation of 2 helicopters and 8 drones.
In addition, 7 other people were arrested in Moscow.
